More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 53

So Tom flung down his weapon and yielded the tinker the better on it, took him home to his house, where they nursed their bruises and from that day forth there was no stauncher pair of friends than they two.

Who acts: Tom, horses, stauncher pair · What happens: fling down, yield, take, nurse, be, bruise · To what, where: weapon, tinker, house, bruises

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, horses, stauncher pair), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 flung	advmod
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 flung	nsubj
3	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 flung	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 weapon	nmod:poss
6	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flung	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 yielded	cc
8	yielded	yield	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flung	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tinker	det
10	tinker	tinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yielded	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 better	det
12	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 tinker	acl:relcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 better	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flung	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	obj
18	home	home	ADV	_	16 took	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 house	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 house	nmod:poss
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 nursed	punct
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 nursed	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 nursed	nsubj
25	nursed	nurse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 took	parataxis
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 bruises	nmod:poss
27	bruises	bruise	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 nursed	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 day	cc
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 day	case
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 day	det
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bruises	conj
32	forth	forth	ADV	_	25 nursed	advmod
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 was	expl
34	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 nursed	conj
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 pair	det
36	stauncher	staunch	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 pair	amod
37	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 was	nsubj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 friends	case
39	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 pair	nmod
40	than	than	ADP	_	42 two	case
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 two	nsubj
42	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 pair	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fling down	past	Tom	Tom's weapon			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme
2	yield	past	Tom not said here	the tinker			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent tinker=Theme
3	take	past	Tom not said here	tinker	Tom's house	home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to house=Destination
4	nurse	past	horses = horse	horses's bruises and that day		forth property	vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bruise=Beneficiary
5	be	past	no stauncher pair of friends than two		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bruise		horses = horse				nom bruise «state transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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